As part of its Black History Month coverage, the blog of the Organization of American Historians has published an index of every article published on African American history in the Journal of American History. Read the index here. Here are a...
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Benjamin Carp on Edmund Morgan's "Slavery and Freedom"
As some of you may recall, Edmund Morgan’s 1972 Journal of American History article “Slavery and Freedom” won the 2016 Junto Blog “March Madness” tournament for the best journal article in early American history. Over at Process: A Blog for American History...
One and Done
In case you haven’t seen the First Round results in the 2016 Junto March Madness tournament, my article “The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian’s Rural Enlightenment (JAH 2003) lost to Jon Butler’s “Enthusiasm Described and Decried: The Great Awakening...
Did You Vote Today?
The last I checked there are no presidential primaries scheduled for today. But there is still voting to be done. Head over to the Junto blog and cast your vote for the best academic journal article published in the field...
The "Rural Enlightenment" Lands a Spot in the Junto March Madness Tournament
My 2003 Journal of American History article “The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian’s Rural Enlightenment” landed a spot in the 2016 Junto blog’s March Madness tournament focuses on journal articles. We landed in the “History of Ideas” bracket as the...
I Think I Just Found My Campaign Manager
Jay Eldred is a “book-reading, coffee-drinking, marathon-running history teacher who blogs at Running in My Head. Let’s make @JohnFea1 a March Madness Champion! https://t.co/JT1LIsBgcg pic.twitter.com/oWkpi2PzqL — Jay Eldred (@JayEldred) March 5, 2016 I don’t think I have ever met Jay, but...